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Its predecessor, the Saint Benedict Center began in 1941 as a student center in an old furniture store in Harvard Square on the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets, just a half a block from the Harvard Yard. It was directly across the street from the Romanesque front porch of St. Paul Church, Cambridge's renowned "university church".
St. Benedict Priory in Benet Lake, Wisconsin: "The monastery was founded by Conception Abbey on March 21, 1945, was raised to a conventual priory on December 15, 1950, and to the status of an abbey on May 24, 1952. On October 23, 2014, the Chapter of St. Benedict’s Abbey voted to become dependent Priory of Conception Abbey.
This building was gutted by fire in 1927 and was rebuilt. The third Abbot of Subiaco, Paul Nahlen, O.S.B., obtained Pope Pius XII's blessing for the construction of the present church on the Abbey campus. The church was completed in 1959. [1] This act is depicted in one of the 182 stained-glass windows in St. Benedict Abbey Church.
The second was for the primary apostolate—educating and forming young men for the priesthood. The breaking ground ceremony for the St. John Vianney Seminary building took place on January 30, 1955, more than a year and a half later the building and the attached new chapel were dedicated on October 28, 1956.
In 2019, Abbot Benedict Neenan, the monastery's abbot, unveiled a list of 8 monks who were credibly accused of committing acts of sex abuse while serving on behalf of Conception Abbey, seven of whom are dead and one removed from ministry.
The Abbot Primate of the Order of St. Benedict serves as the elected representative of the Benedictine Confederation of monasteries in the Catholic Church.While normally possessing no authority over individual autonomous monasteries or congregations, he does serve as a liaison to the Vatican on behalf of the Benedictines, promotes unity among Benedictine monasteries and congregations, and ...
St. Benedict's Prep and Delbarton have a shared history that dates back to the Morris County school's founding. In December 1925, St. Mary's Abbey in central Newark purchased 400 acres of what had ...
Jerome Theisen (30 December 1930 – 11 September 1995) was an American Benedictine monk of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, the eighth abbot of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, and the seventh Abbot Primate of the Order of St. Benedict and the Benedictine Confederation.